Insights
into Avian Influenza Virus Pathogenicity: the Hemagglutinin Precursor HA0 of Subtype H16 Has an Alpha - Helix Structure in Its Cleavage Site with Inefficient HA1 / HA2 Cleavage
The duck genome and transcriptome provide insight
into an avian influenza virus reservoir species
Not exact matches
Image courtesy of Vmenkov / Wikimedia Commons After public outcry against research
into avian flu strains that can be transmitted among mammals, 40 of the top scientists working on the
influenza strains signed a voluntary moratorium on research last January.
The extracellular domain of the H5 or H7 protein of the respective
avian influenza viruses was transplanted
into the Newcastle disease virus vaccine strain LaSota in order to make the vaccine constructs.
Shortridge is a professor emeritus at the University of Hong Kong, where he led investigations
into the initial emergence of H5N1
avian influenza in 1997, when it killed six of the 18 people it infected.